Vintage? I think so.

This photo was taken at the varsity football game against Vidor. I was trying to get an image showing action and the football. I took this photograph with an ISO of 400, aperture of 4.0, and a shutter speed of 1/800 of a second with a 70-200 lens. I like this photo because it looks vintage. This photo would of been better if I would of gotten their faces. The angles of my photographs need improvement, but I love this image.

Palm Trees and Coconuts

I took this photograph of Emily Speer and John David Goins at the summer STUCO retreat as they were playing the game, palm trees and coconuts. I didn't really know what the point of the game was, I just thought it was funny that they had to jump on their partners back. I knew Emily was photogenic, so I tried to focus on the emotion. I wish I would of gotten more of John David's reaction, but I love happiness shown on Emily's face. In the future, I hope to get better at angles and backgrounds. When I shot the retreat, it was my first time using flash, so I didn't really know what to put the settings on. Luckily, I took this photo at 1600 ISO, 5.0 aperture, and 1/60th of a second with a 17-50 lens.

First Volleyball Game

This photograph was taken during the freshman volleyball game against Marshall. My goal was to get an action shot that showed emotion. The image was taken with a 78/200 lens. I had to mess with the camera settings a lot to get the exposure correct and the ball in focus. When I took this photo my exposure was 1/250th of a second. Figuring out the ISO  was the easiest to set because I've gotten used to setting it to inside, outside, cloudy, or sunny. My ISO for this picture was 1000. The aperture was set at 4.5. I wanted to get a darker background so that the girls jumping up were in focus, not the background. I'm really bad at focusing on the background, but this time I actually got it right. I wish I would have avoided the opponent's head, and gotten the girl's entire elbow inside the image. It's distracting, but luckily not too big of a problem.